Eskandar Ensafi wrote: > When I use the Unix Makefile generator (or the NMake Makefile generator > under Windows), running “cmake --build <bindir>” does not produce color > output, whereas “cd <bindir> && make” does. Is there a reason for this, > or have I stumbled upon a bug?
The color output auto-detects whether it is attached to an interactive terminal (tty). If not, it does not print the escapes. When cmake runs the "make" command through --build, it hands the process a new pipe and not its own stdout (which might be a tty). The --build option is meant for scripts to drive builds and log output to a file, so no color is desired. I would consider interactive use of --build to be a feature request. Its implementation re-uses some of the automated build command invocation used by CTest's ctest_build command. Adding a pass-thru to the outer process's pipe is somewhat tricky. -Brad _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
